Category: Court News

LAKE HAVASU – Three Lake Havasu City residents had their criminal matters resolved during hearings last Thursday at the Mohave County Courthouse in Kingman. The harshest punishment came in three drug cases involving Michael-Shawn Boultinghouse, 37. Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle sent Boultinghouse to prison for 8.5 years. He was convicted of 2 narcotic drug related counts in a plea agreement that dismissed a mix of other charges. Prosecutor Amanda Claerhout said Boultinghouse possessed singed foil with heroin residue when arrested in December, 2018 at 3101 London Bridge Road. She said Boultinghouse two months later sold 1.5 grams of heroin…

BULLHEAD CITY – Bullhead City Police arrested Devin Gene Monreal, 23, on a temporary felony warrant for attempted homicide for his involvement in Monday’s shooting at Lowe’s. According Bullhead City Police Department spokeswoman Emily Fromelt, on Monday, August 19 at around 4:40 p.m., Monreal was reportedly inside his white Saturn station wagon in the Lowe’s parking lot, in Bullhead City when four men in a white Dodge Dakota pulled up next to him. It was reported that the two parties did not know each other. Fromelt said that Monreal and the four men got into a verbal argument. All four…

BULLHEAD CITY – After separate judges rejected two previous plea agreements deemed too lenient, a third plea deal has been accepted for a Bullhead City man who was charged in separate assault cases. Mohave County Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert also imposed a five year prison sentence for Luis Romero, 26 on August 7. Lambert told attorneys when he rejected a previous plea on July 23 that he would not approve any deal involving less than five years. Terms of the agreement dismiss the case involving Romero’s assault of his girlfriend last year, leaving her with badly blackened and swollen…

Identification still pending KINGMAN – A Kingman couple who reportedly admitted killing a woman in a child custody dispute was indicted by a Mohave County Grand jury last month. Carrie Vanover, 23, and Mark Baldonado, 31, are charged with first degree murder in the death of Vanover’s mother. The defendants whose confessions are detailed in court records were upset that 62-year-old Shawn Vanover had custody of her granddaughter, Carrie’s five year-old daughter. The probable cause affidavit said Carrie was late term pregnant when they decided to kill her mother because she allegedly had threatened to seek custody of her son…

KINGMAN – A Kingman school teacher has been arrested for alleged sexual activity with a 15-year-old boy. 29-year old Brent Michael Miracle was arrested Monday and booked into the Mohave County Adult Detention Center on sexual conduct with a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor charges. Public Information Officer Jennifer Sochocki said Kingman police opened an investigation on August 7 after being advised that a Kingman Unified School District (KUSD) employee was possibly sexually involved with a teenager. “The investigation revealed that Miracle met a juvenile victim on a dating app and engaged in sexual conduct with…